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Web conference with Riccardo Bellofiore

As part of our critical economics series, we will be speaking with Professor Riccardo Bellofiore of the University of Bergamo – please join us, and feel free to ask your questions. Date: Thursday 14 February 2013 Time: 10:30 am GMT and 11:30 CET Riccar …

As part of our critical economics series, we will be speaking with Professor Riccardo Bellofiore of the University of Bergamo – please join us, and feel free to ask your questions.

Date: Thursday 14 February 2013

Time: 10:30 am GMT and 11:30 CET

Riccardo is Professor of Monetary Economics, International Monetary Economics. and History of Economic Thought at the University of Bergamo, Italy.

His research interests are Marxian value and crisis theory, the Circuitist approach to money endogeneity, Minsky’s financial instability hypothesis and interpretation of money manager capitalism.

He has recently published two books (in Italian) on the current crisis: “The Capitalist Crisis: the coming barbarism” and “The Global Crisis: Europe, euro, and the Left and European”.

Among his most recent articles in Engish on these topics, “Two or three things I know about her’. Europe in the Global Crisis, and heterodox economics”, Cambridge Journal of Economics, (forthcoming); “Crisis Theory and the Great Recession: A Personal Journey, from Marx to Minsky”, Research in Political Economy, 2012; and “A crisis of capitalism”, Guardian, September 22nd, 2011. He has been a regular contributor to “il manifesto”, both journal and newspaper.

Joining instructions:

On the right side of the home page there is a box called Web Conference, with a drop down list of meeting rooms. Select the meeting called “Riccardo Bellofiore”.

Type in your name, and password 123.

Click ‘Join’, and you will be redirected to the web conference.

A window will pop up asking permission to use your web cam and microphone, as well as the opportunity to choose devices and edit preferences. Allow, and click ‘join audio’. If possible, use a head set, as computer speakers can cause feedback.

Your web cam won’t come on automatically. There is a camera icon in the top left hand corner of the screen. If you click that a video window will open with a ‘play’ button at the bottom. If you click that your video will go live.

If you don’t have a web cam and mic, you can still participate by typing questions into the chat box.

You can ask questions by typing them in the chat area to the right of the screen, or by clicking the hand icon.

Walton Pantland

South African trade unionist living in Glasgow. Loves whisky, wine, running and the great outdoors. Walton did an MA in Industrial Relations at Ruskin, Oxford, and is interested in how trade unions use new technology to organise.